Enough monkeys and a typewriter will produce Shakespeare, and enough gamers and a loot economy will produce exploits. Arc Raiders developer Embark Studios felt this firsthand as it watched millions of players discover and disseminate ways to access loot hotspots normally gated behind rare keycards by – checks notes – running into a corner really hard. This was not on the studio's bingo card, it turns out, and it wasn't the only surprise.
Speaking with PC Gamer, art director Robert Sammelin says, "There are quite a few things that have taken us by surprise." You can only do so much testing internally, and your own team's enthusiasm for loot may not match the bottomless hunger of tempted gamers. (Our Arc Raiders loot cheat sheet will help you with that, the legitimate way.)
